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The invention of Thomas Blanchard's copying lathe in 1819 marked a significant milestone in the development of American manufacturing, enabling the mass production of complex wooden forms and paving the way for the American system of manufacturing.
Recent biographies of Ronald Reagan reveal a leader whose composure steadied a disoriented state, but also a governing method that relied on repetition and procedure rather than fixing systems. This emotional sensibility became a governing method, where the federal government became increasingly opaque to citizens, and technical debt grew, the accumulation of unmade decisions carried forward as administrative workarounds.